根据官网上的介绍可以在/etc/apt/source.list文件中添加：
#these below are added by walle 2011-8-17
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner
deb http://orange.biolab.si/debian squeeze main
deb-src http://orange.biolab.si/debian squeeze main
然后：sudo aptitude update
然后：sudo aptitude install orange-canvas
如果你的ubuntu版本为10.10及以下。通常会出错。说什么该软件包依赖于python2.6.6-3而你安装的是python2.6.6-2然后就装不了。
此种情况后只能从源码编译安装：
This document explains how to compile and install Orange on a Linux system.
The following commands were tested on Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 11.04 and should
be modified accordingly for other distributions.
1. OBTAINING SOURCES
You can download the Orange's nightly packed sources from
http://www.ailab.si/orange/nightly_builds.html and extract the archive.
An alternative is to check out the newest revision directly from SVN
repository. In latter case, the following should do the job:
sudo apt-get install subversion # install the SVN client
svn co http://www.ailab.si/svn/orange/trunk/orange
cd orange
svn co http://www.ailab.si/svn/orange/trunk/source
2. DEPENDENCIES
2.1 For Python scripting
If you only need the scripting interface, accessible through python,
the dependencies are easier to fulfil. Only the common building tools and
python extensions for imaging, graphs and computation with matrices are needed.
sudo apt-get install make g++ python-dev python-numpy python-matplotlib python-imaging
(For some older Ubuntu releases, it might be necesarry to replace the
python-numpy with python-numpy-ext.)
This suffices for Orange scripting version to work.
2.2 Orange Canvas (widgets)
If you would like to use Orange Canvas, you will need to install PyQWT 5.1.
On Ubuntu 9.10 and newer use:
sudo apt-get install python-qwt5-qt4
On Ubuntu 9.04 it needs to be compiled from source. To fulfill its compilation
dependencies use:
sudo apt-get install python-qt4-dev libqwt5-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools sip4
Then download PyQWT version 5.1.0 (.tar.gz package) from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqwt/files/
Extract it and move inside the extracted folder. Next, use the following.
(For other systems, substitute the install path with your python package
directory.)
cd configure
python configure.py -Q ../qwt-5.1 --module-install-path=/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyQt4/Qwt5
make -j8
sudo make install
3. COMPILING AND INSTALLING ORANGE
Move to the directory containing the downloaded Orange's sources. Compile the
C++ sources:
cd source
make #需要注意的是笔者在该步骤出了问题，首先是无法执行cmake，这个简单。sudo aptitude install amake .然后报错，无法执行sip命令，解决方法是sudo aptitude install python-sip-dev,然后就ok了
cd .. #to move to main orange directory
Transfer files. Tar is used instead of cp because it can exclude unnecessary
files and keeps symbolic links. For other systems, substitute the install path
with your python package directory.
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/orange
tar -cf - --exclude='.svn' * | sudo tar --no-same-owner -xf - -C /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/orange
sudo sh -c "echo '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/orange' > /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/orange.pth"
4. RUNNING
To use Orange in python scripts, try importing "orange" and "orngStat"
in python interpreter. It should work flawlessly.
You can run the Orange Canvas (widgets) with:
python /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/orange/OrangeCanvas/orngCanvas.pyw